Political Quotes

“There is a school, Lincoln School. This is a landlocked community, so they are suffering from a problem that, again, the technocrats call 'declining enrollment.' There are just not as many kids around. This was a critical school in a critical part of the community. Because the enrollment was going down in the entire school district, the folks in Lansing said, sorry, this is the amount of money that you are going to get. Deal with it. Deal with it. And there was nothing that the local school board could do. They had to make some choices. One of the choices that was not even on the table was, can we go to the community and can we appeal to them and say, we know that this is not the most efficient and effective decision if you are running the school as a business, all right? And maybe we really do not need that school. We can move some kids here and there, and that is a better and more effective and more efficient way to run it. But they could not even go back and say, having that school there was right for the kids.”